Science Education & Policy

Smart Kids- Careers Often Shaped By What Society Expects

Gifted youths already know what they want to be when they grow up- in a lot of cases it's applied sciences, but when they are asked why they made their choices, they are not able to explain. A study surveyed 800 gifted and non-gifted high-school stude ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2009 - 10:56am

Legislation would put tobacco under FDA control

Whether you are for, against, or apathetic to tobacco, Congress is working to ensure that tobacco and tobacco companies fall under FDA regulation. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 4 2009 - 4:33pm

Teaching science to 14 and 15 year old humans

I am disarmed every day by the amount of info my students do not know at this stage of their life cycle.................I am teaching the life cycle of stars for the 4th year (this is my second career....my first was in healthcare 20+ years). Does anyone e ...

Blog Post - Christine Jones - Mar 5 2009 - 4:03pm

Why Not Try A Scientific Approach To Science Education?

The purpose of science education is no longer simply to train that tiny fraction of the population who will become the next generation of scientists. We need a more scientifically literate populace to address the global challenges that humanity now faces a ...

Article - Carl Wieman - Mar 15 2009 - 9:14pm

A Scientific Approach To Science Education- Research On Learning

Continued from Part 1, Why Not Try A Scientific Approach To Science Education? In a traditional science class, the teacher stands at the front of the class lecturing to a largely passive group of students. Those students then go off and do back-of-the-chap ...

Article - Carl Wieman - Mar 23 2009 - 1:02pm

Science- Don't Drink and Derive

Our editor, Hank Campbell, is collecting ideas for the SB 2.0 T-Shirt Collection. Here are a few ideas. I'd love to have some of yours. Maybe you'll see your name in lights... or at least on cotton. Science and calculus don't mix. Never dri ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Mar 27 2009 - 3:36pm

Stop Paying Attention And You Will Learn Better?

A new study challenges the prevailing assumption that you must pay attention to something in order to learn it. Research in the journal Neuron says that stimulus-reward pairing can elicit visual learning in adults... even without awareness of the stimulus ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2009 - 7:22pm

Yes, we're still talking about it....

...and the depth vs. breadth argument in science education continues, even though. This article chimes in with some updated information.  A new study shows that students who studied basic topics more in depth in high school did better in college introducto ...

Blog Post - Mrs. H. - Mar 11 2009 - 8:09pm

Science Literacy- American Adults 'Flunk' Basic Science, Says Survey

Are Americans bad at science?  If so, are they worse than anywhere else?   We know the answer to one of those questions.   A new national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences and conducted by Harris Interactive  says that the U.S. publ ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2013 - 2:33pm

Obama's Merit Pay For Teachers Will Work, Says Researcher

It seems obvious; even in a noble profession like education, if you pay people more who are better at it, better people are incentivized to do it. Obviously a number of people do it despite the money, just like science and academia, and the overall qualit ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2009 - 1:43pm